Which class gets applied first?

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:15:38 -0500, Ryan Steele <ryans at aweber.com> said:

    > Preface: using version 3.2.14
    > In a situation where the FAI client uses several classes that have 
    > package_config files, are all the applicable package_config/ files 
    > processed in a certain order, or at the same time?
All package names from both classes are combined to a long list.

    > ...does CLASS1 always get executed before CLASS2, resulting in CLASS1's 
    > packages being installed first?
No.


    > I get the feeling that all the packages get added 
    > to one big packages list when all is said and done
Yep. that's the way install_pacakges is working. you will also see the
in software.log (or fai.log) which shows you how aptitude or apt-get
is called.


I have one situation were I also like to determine the order of
packages that gets installed, so I use a hook for that. Not perfect,
since it doesn't use the package_config file.
IMO it's a bug in aptitude if some combination of packages
don't install well.

Maybe I should add an option for install_packages, which tells it to
isntall packages in the order of classes instead of collecting all
names to a long list. 

I there a special reason for you that the packages are installed in
the order of the classes?
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regards Thomas